Liberal Education Today

Scientific Papers for the iPhone

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/02/ars-exclusive-review-papers-for-iphone.ars One new scientific paper resource is Papers for iPhone. Stemming from an OSX desktop version, this Papers...

Deadline coming up fast: Mapping for Sustainability

http://www.nitle.org/www/events/824-mapping-for-sustainability This Friday is the registration deadline for the NITLE conference on “Mapping for Sustainability”. The event occurs April 23-25, 2009,...

Economic crisis means more open academic content: Lev Gonic

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3632/lev-gonick-how-technology-will-reshape-academe-after-the-economic-crisis One side effect on academia of the economic crisis could be a boom in free, open...

Kindles in the library: one Florida case

http://kindlepbcc.blogspot.com/ A Florida campus library is exploring using the Kindle e-book reader. Palm Beach Community College's library technologist is blogging about their experiments,...

Shaping a teenager's computer game play

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/22/parent-of-gamer-asks.html This account describes one parent worrying about their teenaged son, who plays a World War Two game (Call of Duty). So the pedagogical...

Conference debate: are "Virtual Worlds are the Second Life for Online Learning"?

http://www.itcnetwork.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=214 Session notes for a featured session at the ITC eLearning conference, a debate on: are "Virtual Worlds are the Second Life for Online Learning"?...

Making Web 2.0 work: McKinsey advice

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/Application_Management/Six_ways_to_make_Web_20_work_2294 How to make social media work: McKinsey offers six methods. They aim at administrators...

Blackboard vs Epsilen: duelling course management systems:

http://www.itcnetwork.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=214 Notes from eLearning 2009 conference presentation on two course management system (CMS) platforms, Epsilen and Blackboard. Fort Hays State...

iPhone apps store: research on user behavior

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/63034/app-store-grows-apps-are-seldom-used Most iPhone users tend to stop using most downloaded applications within a day or two, according to new research....

Stimulus projects required to publish RSS feeds

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rssstimulus One Web 2.0 protocol saw a powerful use case this week, as the American economic stimulus package required spending agencies to publish RSS feeds. For each...